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This afternoon, the missis and I perched sunglasses on top of our heads, locked horns with the Thai hi-so crowd, zig-zagged around horrible snivelling expat children, and strutted around the shopping and restaurant zone at Thonglor soi 13 like a couple of game cocks, eventually settling for The Greyhound Cafe. There is also a branch in the Emporium and one or two others knocking around I think.
I would sum up The Greyhound Cafe as 'fusion food on a budget' . Elvis Burgers, Seafood Paella, Chicken in rice-paper, fish in beer batter. The portions are small but very well presented. I was unadventurous and had the lemon sole goujouns with a cajun salad while my wife had a Vietnamese chicken dish with sticky rice balls. Always save a bit of room for the cakes though. The missis made her waistline scream for mercy with the home-made banana and chocolate cake and I was only slightly less devil-may-care opting for a terrific cherry crumble with vanilla custard. Price for two - 700 baht with drinks. It's fusion food on a budget.
The only thing that irks me about Greyhound is the staff all seem a little dim. Requests for menus, the check bin, more water, an additional order are all met with a sort of blank stare and there's this tortuous few seconds as the message is decoded and finally delivered to the brain. However, our main meals did arrive at almost the same time - not exactly but almost - and I'm grateful for that in any Thai-owned restaurant.
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^^Agree with you there, Phil....I'm in Greyhound (mostly Emporium branch) at least twice a month for the Tokyo Soba or whatever specials are on offer. Not every dish is a success, but I like the variety and the imaginative effort.
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used to eat in the chidlom greyhound a few times when i worked there. not bad at all; home-made pate was always a favourite. used to havesome good sashimi fusion specials too.
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The only thing that irks me about Greyhound is the staff all seem a little dim.
phil mate, remember where you are...
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Since when was Thonglor and the Greyhound Hiso? Thonglor is just a middle class area, and the Greyhound is hardly synonymous with high tea at the Oriental.
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zig-zagged around horrible snivelling expat children
That's rather a nasty working class chip someone has on their shoulder.....
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Thonglor is just a middle class area, and the Greyhound is hardly synonymous with high tea at the Oriental.
I also use the term 'hi-so' do describe the Thong-Lo scene, even though it might not be exactly right. NOT 'high society' as in ladies who lunch. Just wealthy. Conspicuous consumption. Frivolity and style. Anyone in BKK whose 'out shopping' in the Western sense, out around THong Lo, is 'hi-so' to me. It's a blanket term and yes of course the Oriental is technically the temple of HIGH SOCIETY etc. but I think it's a common usuage thing...at least I know lots of folks, farang and thai, who throw the term around in all kinds of ways and THong-Lo, yup, call it hi-so!
I prefer the term 'wannabes', I'm from the North of England and still consider myself to be more hi-so than some of the trashy, OTT, conspicuous consumers around the 'posh' shops here (expats included).
Quite the nastiest breed of people I've come across in the world, even worse than the provincial French IMO.
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I'm a big Greyhound fan. It is rare IMO that a restaurant chain, especially a mall one, is anything special, but Greyhound does. If anyone is pining for Italian and doesn't want to break the bank, the lasagna at Greyhound is great, better than I've had anywhere else in Bangkok (granted this is only out of 3-4 places and none were particularly expensive or otherwise a place you'd expect anything special).
Also, the Elvis Burger is only 160 baht which is a bargain IMO. Although by US standards it's good but not great, and rather small, most similar restaurants in BKK charge a lot more for burgers, and you can spend the same baht just for Burger King if you get one of the bigger burgers. It is very well presented too.
nobody in Thailand has any class, plenty of crass for sure
i always moan when the missus wants to go to greyhound but usually enjoy it to be honest
like the soba and the elvis, but never had anything really bad there
the one at soi ari is nice too
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zig-zagged around horrible snivelling expat children
That's rather a nasty working class chip someone has on their shoulder.....
how the fuck do you arive at that conclusion carl gustav?
disliking horrible kids has nothing to do with class
thats a rather nasty assuming attitude you are developing there
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